Remote sensing of photovoltaic scenarios: Techniques, applications and future directions

Q Chen, X Li, Z Zhang, C Zhou, Z Guo, Z Liu, H Zhang - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is an effective way to address the problems of
limited fossil fuel reserves, soaring world energy demand and global climate change. The …

Advances and prospects on estimating solar photovoltaic installation capacity and potential based on satellite and aerial images

H Mao, X Chen, Y Luo, J Deng, Z Tian, J Yu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaic (PV) system, as one kind of the most promising renewable energy
technologies, plays a key role in reducing carbon emissions to achieve the targets of global …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the rapid development of photovoltaic power stations in northwestern China using remote sensing

Z Xia, Y Li, R Chen, D Sengupta, X Guo, B Xiong, Y Niu - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Many leading countries are boosting renewables, especially solar energy, as a major way to
mitigate future energy crises and climate change. Particularly, in China, the number and …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping of decentralised photovoltaic and solar thermal systems by remote sensing aerial imagery and deep machine learning for statistic generation

J Lindahl, R Johansson, D Lingfors - Energy and AI, 2023 - Elsevier
As a mean to monitor the rapid expansion of the highly decentralized PV market, identifying
solar energy systems in aerial imagery by deep machine learning, is a research field that is …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine

X Zhang, M Xu, S Wang, Y Huang… - Earth System Science …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Photovoltaic (PV) technology, an efficient solution for mitigating the impacts of climate
change, has been increasingly used across the world to replace fossil fuel power to …

Leaf area index estimation of pergola-trained vineyards in arid regions using classical and deep learning methods based on UAV-based RGB images

O Ilniyaz, Q Du, H Shen, W He, L Feng, H Azadi… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Timely and accurate mapping of leaf area index (LAI) in vineyards plays an important role for
management choices in precision agricultural practices. However, only a little work has …

Land use/land cover mapping based on GEE for the monitoring of changes in ecosystem types in the upper Yellow River basin over the Tibetan Plateau

S Feng, W Li, J Xu, T Liang, X Ma, W Wang, H Yu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The upper Yellow River basin over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is an important ecological
barrier in northwestern China. Effective LULC products that enable the monitoring of …

Solar park detection from publicly available satellite imagery

V Plakman, J Rosier, J van Vliet - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid increase in large-scale photovoltaic installations, or solar parks, causes a need to
monitor their amount and allocation, and assess their impacts. While their spectral signature …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying small decentralized solar systems in aerial images using deep learning

 Frimane, R Johansson, J Munkhammar, D Lingfors… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Statistics on installed solar energy systems (SES) play a crucial role in the solar energy
industry, providing valuable information for a wide range of stakeholders, such as policy …

A hierarchical information extraction method for large-scale centralized photovoltaic power plants based on multi-source remote sensing images

F Ge, G Wang, G He, D Zhou, R Yin, L Tong - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the context of global sustainable development, solar energy is very widely used. The
installed capacity of photovoltaic panels in countries around the world, especially in China …